ITINERARY FOR THE FIELD IMMERSION TRIP 2016 TO

NORTH EAST
( SHILLONG & GUWAHATI )

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Date /
Time

Day
1
Day
2

11/12
PM
12/12
AM

Activity Planned

Remarks

Arrival at Guwahati

Stay at Guwahati

Kamakhya Temple

Talk by Dr Manzul
Hazorika at the
temple premise
about the historical
and cultural
significance of
Kamakhya.

10

State Museum

12

Lunch Cruise / Sunset Cruise on

Brahmaputra

AM
AM
4

Kalakhetra and silpagram

AM

Day
3

13/12
AM

Leave for Shillong

10 AM

Stop at Umiam Lake in Barapani,

Shillong

12.30 PM

Arrival at Shillong

1.30/ 2 PM

All Saint Church and Captain

Williamson Sangma State Museum

4 PM

Art Gallery

For cultural
functions/art
exhibition and
shopping of
indigenous stuf
Stay at Shillong

Breakfast / spend
some time in
Barapani for
boating or water
sport

Meet documentary

Day
4.

14/12
7.30.AM
11 AM

Have early breakfast and go to

Smit, Laitlum.
Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous
Cultures

4 PM

Post lunch Site seeing on way

back from the museum : BeadonBishop Water- falls (Sunapani)/ Sweet
falls (Weitdem)

6 PM

Day
5

15/ 12
8.30 AM
12 AM

Talk by Desmond L.
Kharmawphlang ( Poet and
Professor , North Easter Hill
University )about North Eastern
Literature and NE Poetry.
Readings by writer Esther
Syiem and Desmond L.
Kharmawphlang.

Film maker , artist

Raphael Warjri at
MAD Gallery for
basic orientation
about Shillong and
its socio-cultural
aspects. Watch
documentaries
made by Raphael
Warjri.
Route to Mawlai
if possible

At the MAD
Gallery , Riti
Academy of
Visual Arts,
Shillong.

Mawphlang sacred grove and Khasi

Heritage Village
LUNCH
Elephant Falls and Shillong peak on
the way back from Mawphlang

6 PM

Talk by Meban Lyndem ( on

Khasi Music) Asst. Professor
(Martin Luther Christian
University, Shillong)

Musical evening by Meban/ Na

Rympei

At the MAD
Gallery , Riti
Academy of
Visual Arts,
Shillong.

Day
6

Day
7

16/12
AM

1 PM
17/12. 9.45

Lewduh (Barra Bazaar) and Police

Bazaar

Return to Guwahati
Departure

Barra Bazaar for

indigenous stuff and
police Bazaar for
general shopping
before departure.

( Board train to
Delhi )